Animal testing‚ also known as animal experimentation‚ is the use of animals to view and control variables that affect their behavior and biology system. It has played a major role in biomedical research ever since the last century. Using animals in research that could protect humans from a disease‚ any kind of pain‚ suffering‚ and even death should be justified. One of the many reasons why it is justified is because it has helped medical fields come up with many treatments for diseases. Treatments
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delightful image right? “An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing. Animals are used to develop medical treatments‚ determine the toxicity of medications‚ check the safety of products destined for human use‚ and other biomedical‚ commercial‚ and health care uses” (ProCon 1). It is unfair to sentence so many animals to life in a laboratory cage and to cause
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test harmful material and chemicals on animals because they are not human beings. Animal testing is wrong and should be illegal because it is cruel to the animal‚ the tests are not always accurate and there are alternative ways to test products that do not need to be tested on animals. Testing on animals is cruel. It is cruel because it is subjecting animals‚ that feel like people do‚ to extreme pain and torture. As reported by PETA‚ “U.S. law allows animals to be burned‚ shocked‚ poisoned‚ isolated
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Throughout history animal testing has played an important role in leading to new discoveries and human benefit. However‚ the realization of the moral status that animals hold only began in the late 1970’s. Today it is a multibillion dollar industry that involves several institutions‚ cosmetic companies and scientific centers. What people tend to forget is the great number of animal subjects that have suffered serious harm during the process of experimentation. Many ethical questions arise about these
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the topic of animal testing‚ most of us will readily agree that it is a debatable topic. Where this agreement usually ends‚ however‚ is on the question of whether it helps researchers to find new drugs and treatments suitable for humans. Whereas some are convinced that it does help researchers find new drugs and treatments‚ others maintain that some drugs tested on animals may never actually be useful or even safe for human consumption. In my own view the results of animals testing are unreliable
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Replacing Animal Testing: Unrealistic The issue of whether or not animal experimentation should be used for research in medicine and science has been debated for years. After conducting research on both sides of the issue‚ I have found that we should not replace animal testing with alternative methods at the present time. The proposal to replace animal testing in medical science is somewhat unrealistic and would prove to be disadvantageous. There are four substantial reasons for this: animal research
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I. Unethical a. Animals cannot give their consent to be a test subject. b. Animals have feelings that aren’t recognizable. c. Robin Williams passed and the Gorilla he had been working with named Kok‚ became depressed. After learning sign language‚ Kok signed the word crying showing how sad she was by the death of Robin Williams. d. Many animals are tortured with burns‚ forced to accept these drugs with unknown results‚ and restrained for long periods of times. e. Animal testing is immoral and even
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Animal testing is a major debate in today’s society‚ but it is not just a problem of today. Animal testing dates back the 1800’s when Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory served to suggest that animals could serve as effective models to facilitate biological understanding in humans. Other cases of animal testing include psychological experiments such as the one by Ivan Pavlov in the late nineteenth century. He conducted experiments on dogs to demonstrate how dogs could be conditioned with regards
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An issue that is being discussed is whether people should promote animal testing. Certainly‚ animal testing can be successful sometimes in saving lives but I believe that it is more important to think about animals dying than people being saved because usually it is unsuccessful which basically results in animals dying for no good reason. In other words‚ I believe that animal testing should not be allowed because it results in poor test results‚ is cruel and inhumane‚ and may mislead researchers
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condoning animal experimentations. Many name brands‚ such as Clorox and L’Oreal‚ use horrible methods to test their products on animals. To be specific‚ roughly 170‚000 rabbits are bred and used purely for testing in the beauty industry and go through chemical blindness and fur loss because of a product meant for humans. How is that humane? Rabbits are not the only animals that are succumbed to the sickening procedures of experiments. Primates‚ cats‚ dogs‚ mice and rats are also some animals that are
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